Presentations
► Boulder School for Condensed Matter and Materials Physics (2015)
• Lecture 1
• Lecture 2
• Lecture 3
► Statics and Dynamics of Colloidal Particles in Liquid Crystals
• Internet Seminar
► Lyotropic chromonic liquid crystals: from viscoelastic properties to living liquid crystals
• Shuang Zhou's PhD defense
► Active colloids in isotropic and anisotropic elektrolytes
• Chenhui Peng's PhD defense
► Dynamic states of swimming bacteria in a nematic liquid crystal cell with homeotropic alignment
• Video abstract by Shuang Zhou
► Spring School on the Mathematical Design of Materials (2019)
• Design of Liquid Crystals for Microscale Dynamics 1
• Design of Liquid Crystals for Microscale Dynamics 2
► APS March Meeting 2020: Bioinspired liquid crystal patterns to
command living matter (Power Point file with videos, PDF file)
► 3D Steerable solitons/directrons in nematic liquid crystals
► KITP Program: Symmetry, Thermodynamics and Topology in Active Matter (2020)
• Liquid Crystals to control microswimmers and tissues ( view PDF file )
► Dynamics of living and inanimate microparticles controlled by nematic liquid crystals
•Taras Turiv's PhD defense
► Novel Mathematical Methods in Material Science: Applications to Biomaterials
•Tactoid-to-Toroid Topological Transition (4T-transition or T5) in Liquid Crystal Nuclei